Is this 303 ammo corrosive?

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im buying 35 rounds of this stuff off a guy for $10 this weekend. good deal or no? is this the old stuff that i have heard about that is very corrosive?

Military Surplus 1951, FMJ in .303 British

thats what he told me it is.

thanks
 
From my experience, most old British 50s 303 is corrosive.

My last crate was 1980 South African. It is non-corrosive. The crate held 1300 rounds and cost me $450 shipped to the door from Ellwood Epps.
 
Does it have a large primer or a small one. To my knowledge the large primer is corrosive, the small primer isn't. For the sake of 35 rds, just pull your rifle through with a patch that has been wetted with water, Dry patch, then an oiled patch, for 2 or 3 consecutive days. Problem solved.
 
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that old most likely corrosive, if you can smell an acid like smell off the ammo its corrosive...........either way be safe clean yer gun as per corrsive ammo when in doubt.
 
The chlorate salts from corrosive primers are water soluble. A wet patch will dissolve out the salts. Some folks recommend Windex. Boiling water was the old standard. Then dry, and clean normally for powder and metal fouling. It is my understanding that Cdn made Boxer (small, .217") primers are non-corrosive, while the large .250" copper coloured Berdan primers are corrosive. Cleaning daily for a few days after using corrosive primed ammunition was standard procedure - just to make sure. Incidentally, if the bullets are silver coloured, they are cupronickel jacketed, and this might give more metal fouling than copper coloured guilding metal jackets.
 
My last crate was 1980 South African. It is non-corrosive. The crate held 1300 rounds and cost me $450 shipped to the door from Ellwood Epps.
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Interesting thing I heard about those they were supposedly made for the correctional service guys. Anyhow there was an old guy I worked with who was a warden and he told me how they saw an escapeing max security criminal get shot 6 times with those before he went down.
We used the fmj for hunting all the time and they were good on game
 
Yup Hot water and Windex works a treat.

Just get yourself a nice tight fitting heat resistant plastic funnel that you can set in the chamber...when the wife isn't looking I use the bathtub as a basin. :D
 
NB nagant, if you can smell an acidy smell, you are smelling absolutely nothing more than the solvent that was used in the propellant manufacture. It in no way indicates if the propellent is deteriorated. Geez where do people get that fantasy from?
 
so it actually seems like a waste to buy this stuff? im not really into cleaning the gun that much....

i think ill pass on the old stuff and just buy the newer stuff he is selling just to save the headache

got until saturday to make up my mind
 
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